Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 35
“Nothing is wanting,” he replied, “but a well-shaped poem.”
Who acts: Nothing, Fionn · What happens: want, reply, shape · To what, where: shaped poem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, Fionn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 wanting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanting | aux |
| 4 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 poem | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 poem | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 poem | det |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 shaped | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 poem | amod |
| 16 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 poem | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 poem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · progressive | Nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Fionn | a shaped poem | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shape in a quote | participle | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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